Terminal platform board for multi-band and multi-carrier and apparatus thereof

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to a terminal board applied to a multi-band and multi-carrier wireless system and an apparatus thereof. The terminal platform apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board, a monitoring device, an RF unit for a multi-band multi-carrier system, and a GPS/power source supply. The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board achieves high speed data processing and high quality data transmission by using a plurality of high performance FPGAs, an ARM processor, a DPRAM, and a CardBus interface. The monitoring device performs real-time debugging operations, and the GPS/power source supply supplies a power source to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean PatentApplication No. 10-2004-0104445 filed in the Korean IntellectualProperty Office on Dec. 10, 2004, the entire content of which isincorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(a) Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a terminal platform board and anapparatus thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to aterminal board applied to a multi-band and multi-carrier wireless systemand an apparatus thereof.

(b) Description of the Related Art

Recently, various modem techniques have been suggested and used, as highspeed and quality data processes are required since the need for highcapacity data services including high quality image and moving pictureservices has increased. In addition, it takes a lot of time to developthe modem techniques, to realize and stabilize hardware thereof, and tocommercialize an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).Accordingly, a software modem download platform for performing desiredmodem functions has been studied to solve the above problem.

While a software modem download platform is disclosed in Korean PatentApplication No. 1999-62407, it is difficult to satisfy the requirementof the terminal platform for processing multi-band and multi-carriersignals.

For interfaces between a monitor and the terminal platform board, fourthgeneration wireless systems require a terminal platform apparatus forprocessing high quality and speed data at over 100 Mbps. However, theplatform board for an international mobile telecommunications-2000(IMT-2000) terminal process data transmission speed of 10 to 20 Mbpsthrough an advantage systems bus, and other interfaces including theEthernet, a universal serial bus (USB), and an interface of IEEE1394have a limit to realizing hardware for securely transmitting data atover 100 Mbps.

The above information disclosed in this Background section is only forenhancement of understanding of the background of the invention andtherefore it may contain information that does not form the prior artthat is already known in this country to a person of ordinary skill inthe art.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a terminalplatform board for achieving high speed and high quality datatransmission required for a fourth generation wireless system, theterminal platform board for a multi-band and multi-carrier system. Anexemplary multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board according toan embodiment of the present invention includes an interface unit forperforming an interface function with an external monitoring device, acodec field-programmable gate array (FPGA) unit, an modem FPGA unit, adual port random access memory (DPRAM) unit for performing a high speedinterface function between a controller and the codec FPGA unit, amemory unit for performing a high speed interface function between thecodec FPGA unit and the modem FPGA unit, a digital intermediatefrequency (IF) unit, a clock/power source regenerator for supplying asystem clock signal received from the RF unit and a power sourcereceived from an external GPS/power source supply, and a controller forcontrolling the interface unit, the codec FPGA unit, the modem FPGAunit, the DPRAM unit, and the memory unit so as to process multi-bandmulti-carrier signals. The digital intermediate frequency (IF) unitfilters a digital signal inputted from the modem FPGA, up-converts thefrequency of the signal, converts the signal into an analogue signal,and transmits the analogue signal to an external radio frequency (RF)unit through multi-paths, and the digital IF unit converts the analoguesignal inputted from the RF unit into the digital signal, filters thedigital signal, and down-converts the frequency of the data signal.

In a further embodiment, an exemplary multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform apparatus includes a monitoring device, a multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board connected with the monitoringdevice, an RF unit, and a GPS/power source supply. The monitoring deviceperforms call process, modem control, monitoring, and debuggingfunctions, and performs an interface function with a physical layer. Themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board includes a DPRAM and amemory for performing high speed interface and modem functions, andprocesses the multi-band and multi-carrier signals by using a multi-pathdigital IF unit. The RF unit transmits an RF band signal to themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board through the multi-pathsafter receiving the RF band signal through an antenna, and externallytransmits a signal through the antenna after converting the signalreceived from the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform boardthrough the multi-paths into the RF band signal. The GPS/power sourcesupply supplies a power source to the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board, receives a node-B frame number by using a GPS module,and controls the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board to beoperated as a base station system.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A and 1B show a block diagram of a configuration of a multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board and apparatus according to anexemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 2A and 2B show a block diagram for representing a non-real-timeprocess for developing terminal and base station modems according to theexemplary embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

An embodiment of the present invention will hereinafter be described indetail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following detailed description, only certain exemplaryembodiments of the present invention have been shown and described,simply by way of illustration. As those skilled in the art wouldrealize, the described embodiments may be modified in various differentways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the presentinvention. Accordingly, the drawings and description are to be regardedas illustrative in nature and not restrictive. Like reference numeralsdesignate like elements throughout the specification.

Hereinafter, a multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board andapparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventionwill be described with reference to the figures.

FIGS. 1A and 1B show a block diagram for representing functions of themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board and apparatus accordingto the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform apparatus according to the exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention includes a multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board100, a monitoring device 200, a radio frequency (RF) unit 300, and aglobal positioning system (GPS) and power source supply unit 400.

The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 for performingfunctions of a physical layer (first layer) performs a modem function,interfaces with a second layer, and cooperates with the RF unit 300 andthe GPS/power source supply 400. Such a multi-band multi-carrierterminal platform board 100 includes an interface unit 110 forinterfacing with the monitoring device 200, a controller 120 forperforming board control and application, a field-programmable gatearray (FPGA) unit 140 used as a coder/decoder (CODEC), a dual portrandom access memory (DPRAM) unit 130 for performing a high speedinterface function between the controller 120 and the FPGA unit 140, anFPGA unit 160 for a modem, a memory unit 150 for a high speed interfacefunction between the FPGA unit 140 and FPGA unit 160, a digitalintermediate frequency (IF) unit 170, and a clock/power sourceregenerator 180.

The interface unit 110 for interfacing with the monitoring device 200includes a recommended standard-232 (RS-232) connector 111, an Ethernetconnector 112, a joint test action group (JTAG) connector 113, and aCardBus connector 114.

The RS-232 connector 111 is connected with the monitoring device 200 inan RS-232 method so that control command transmission and datatransmission to the monitoring device 200 are performed, and theEthernet connector 112 is connected with the monitoring device 200 in anEthernet communication method including transmission controlprotocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) and user datagram protocol (UDP)/IPso that the control command transmission and data transmission to themonitoring device 200 are performed. The JTAG connector 113 is connectedwith the monitoring device 200 so that the FPGA units perform real-timedebugging and program downloading with the monitoring device 200, andthe CardBus connector 114 is connected with the monitoring device 200 sothat high speed and quality data transmission of over 100 Mbps requiredfor a fourth generation wireless system is performed.

The controller 120 for performing the board control and applicationincludes an FPGA1 121 and an ARM processor 122.

The FPGA1 121 for controlling the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board 100 connects the interface unit 110 and the DPRAM unit130, and the ARM processor 122 performs an application function of themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 so that themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 performs terminalfunctions without the monitoring device 200.

The DPRAM unit 130 for the high speed interface includes a DPRAM1 131and a DPRAM2 132.

The DPRAM1 131 performs the high speed interface for transmitting uplinktransport channel information to an FPGA2 141 in a downlink path, andthe DPRAM2 132 performs the high speed interface for transmittingtransport channel information transmitted from an FPGA3 142 to anuplink.

The FPGA unit 140 used as the CODEC includes the FPGA2 141 and the FPGA3142.

The FPGA2 141 used for the downlink performs an encoding function, andthe FPGA3 142 used for the uplink performs a decoding function.

The memory unit 150 for the high speed interface includes a synchronousdynamic random access memory 1 (SDRAM1) 151, an SDRAM2 154, a dynamicprogrammable random access memory 3 (DPRAM3) 152, and a DPRAM4 153.

The SDRAM1 151 performs a memory function for verification of themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 in the uplink, theSDRAM2 154 performs a memory function for verification of the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board 100 in the downlink, the DPRAM3152 performs the high speed interface function between the FPGA2 141 andan FPGA4 161, and the DPRAM4 153 performs the high speed interfacefunction between the FPGA3 142 and an FPGA5 162.

The FPGA unit 160 for the modem includes the FPGA4 161, the FPGA5 162,and an FPGA6 163. The FPGA4 161 performs a modulation function in theuplink path, the FPGA5 162 performs a demodulation function in thedownlink path, and the FPGA6 163 performs a multi-input multi-outputdemodulation function in the downlink path.

The digital IF unit 170 includes a digital up converter & digital downconverter (DUC & DDC) 171, a plurality of digital to analog (D/A)converters 172, and a plurality of analog to digital (A/D) converters173.

The DUC & DDC 171 digitally filters a digital signal of a bandwidthsatisfying a modem standard requirement (the digital signal inputtedfrom the FPGA4 161), and digitally up-converts the digital signal,combines an inphase/quadrature (I/Q) signal to the digital signal, andtransmits the data signal to the D/A 172 in the uplink path. In thedownlink path, the DUC & DDC 171 digitally filters the digital signal ofthe bandwidth satisfying the modem standard requirement (at this time,the digital signal is sampled by the A/D converter 173), digitallydown-converts the digital signal, separates the l/Q signal from thedigital signal, and transmits the digital signal to the FPGA5 162.

The clock/power source regenerator 180 includes a clock regenerator 181and a power source regenerator 182. The clock regenerator 181 receives asystem clock signal from the RF unit 300, and supplies the system clocksignal to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100, andthe power source regenerator 182 receives a power source from theGPS/power source supply 400, and supplies the power source to themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100. At this time, arectification circuit is provided for the respective FPGAs so as tostably supply the power source.

The monitoring device 200 for performing application and functions ofsecond and third layers performs call process control, modem control,monitoring, and debugging functions, and performs an interface functionwith the first layer.

An application unit 210 in the monitoring device 200 includes a signalprocessor 211 and a graphic user interface unit (GUI Front-End) 212 forperforming a graphic user interface function.

The signal processor 211 for modulating/demodulating a modem basebandsignal is used for realizing a modem simulator. In addition, the signalprocessor 211 performs a monitoring function for thetransmitted/received data, the monitoring function includingconstellation, bit error rate (BER), beam pattern, and measurementfunctions.

The graphic user interface unit 212 for controlling a personal computer(PC) of the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform apparatusperforms parameter establishment and signal processes, and performs datadownload/upload with the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformboard 100.

In addition, an interface board 220 performs an interface functionbetween the interface unit 110 of the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board 100 and the application unit 210 of the monitoring device200.

The RF unit 300 may be used in a multi-band multi-carrier system byusing a diplexer, and may be used in a singe-band multi-carrier systemby using a switch.

The GPS/power source supply 400 includes a GPS module and a power sourcemodule, and separates the power source module from the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board 100 so as to stably operate themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100. In addition, themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 may be used for abase station system since the GPS/power source supply 400 receives anode-B frame number by using the GPS module, and the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board 100 may perform functions of aterminal platform without using a synchronous block when being used asthe terminal platform.

Signal flows of the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board andapparatus according to the exemplary embodiment of the present inventionwill be described with reference to FIGS. 1A and 1B.

Firstly, a signal transmitting path of the multi-band multi-carrierterminal platform board and apparatus according to the exemplaryembodiment of the present invention will be described.

The FPGA1 121 for the board control receives data from the second layer,and transmits the data to the FPGA2 141 through the data interface ofthe DPRAM1 131. The FPGA2 141 transmission channel (Trch) encodes thedata and transmits the data to the FPGA4 161 through the data interfaceof the DPRAM3 152, and the FPGA4 161 modulates the data and transmitsthe data to the DUC & DDC 171 in the digital IF unit 170. A basebandsignal inputted to the DUC & DDC 171 is converted into an IF signal, theIF signal is converted from a digital signal into an analogue signal bythe D/A converter 172, and the analogue signal is transmitted throughthe RF unit 300.

A signal receiving path of the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board and apparatus according to the exemplary embodiment ofthe present invention will now be described.

The analogue signal transmitted from the RF unit 300 is converted intothe digital signal by the A/D converter 173, and the IF signal isconverted into a baseband signal by the DUC & DDC 171. The FPGA5 162demodulates the transmitted signal, and the FPGA6 163 obtains desiredreceipt information by MIMO-demodulating the signal. An obtainedinformation signal is transmitted to the FPGA3 142 through the datainterface of the DPRAM4 153, and is Trch decoded by the FPGA3 142. Then,the signal is transmitted to the monitoring device 200 through the datainterface of the DPRAM2 132 and the FPGA1 121 for the board control, andtherefore the terminal platform board is cooperated with the secondlayer.

At this time, the FPGA2 141 and the FPGA3 142 may be cooperated witheach other so as to perform debugging operations of Trch encoding andTrch decoding blocks, and the FPGA4 161 and the FPGA5 162 may becooperated with each other so as to perform debugging operations ofmodem modulation and modem demodulation blocks.

The SDRAM1 151 and the SDRAM2 154 store a large volume oftransmitted/received data so as to use the data for performing blockdebugging operations.

The clock regenerator 181 in the clock/power source regenerator 180receives a system clock signal from the RF unit 300, and supplies thesystem clock signal to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformboard 100, and the power source regenerator 182 receives a power sourcefrom the GPS/power source supply 400, and supplies the power source tothe multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100. At this time,a rectification circuit is provided for the respective FPGAs so as tostably supply the power source.

FIGS. 2A and 2B show a block diagram for representing a non-real-timeprocess for developing terminal and base station modems according to theexemplary embodiment of the present invention.

A configuration shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B is for reducing a time forrealizing a multi-band multi-carrier terminal according to the exemplaryembodiment of the present invention, and the configuration shown inFIGS. 2A and 2B is the same as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B except that theDPRAM unit 130, the FPGA unit 140 for CODEC, the memory unit 150, andthe FPGA6 163 are omitted in FIGS. 2A and 2B

Since the CODEC (encoder/decoder), MODEM (modulator/demodulator), andMIMI demodulator in the configuration shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B areformed as software in the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformboard and apparatus for a non-real-time data process according to theexemplary embodiment of the present invention, a simulator may bepreviously developed. Therefore, performance of actual modem units maybe verified, and the number of FPGAs may be reduced.

The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board 100 cooperates withthe data interface with the second layer, the RF unit 300, and theGPS/power source supply 400.

The monitoring device 200 for performing the application and thefunctions of the second and third layers performs the call processcontrol, the modem control, the monitoring, and the debugging functions.In the monitoring device 200, the physical layer (first layer) (i.e.,CODEC, modem, and MIMO demodulation hardware) described in FIGS. 1A and1B is realized as software so that the data to be transmitted ismodulated and the data to be received is demodulated. In addition, themonitoring device 200 performs the data interface with the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board 100.

The RF unit 300 and the GPS/power supply 400 shown in FIGS. 2A and 2Bperform the same function as the RF unit 300 and the GPS/power supply400 shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B. The RF unit 300 shown in FIGS. 2A and 2Badditionally performs automatic gain control, automatic frequencycontrol, and transmission power control functions.

A signal transmitting flow of the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board and apparatus shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B will be described.

Modulated data transmitted from the second layer is transmitted to theFPGA1 121 for the board control, and is transmitted to the DUC & DDC 171in the digital IF unit 170 through the data interface of the FPGA4 161.A baseband signal inputted to the DUC & DDC 171 is converted into an IFsignal, the IF signal is converted from a digital signal into ananalogue signal by the D/A converter 172, and the analogue signal istransmitted through the RF unit 300.

In the following, a signal receiving flow will be described.

The analogue signal transmitted from the RF unit 300 is converted intothe digital signal by the A/D converter 173, and the IF signal isconverted into a baseband signal by the DUC & DDC 171. The signal istransmitted to the monitoring device 200 through the FPGA5 162 forperforming the received data interface function and the FPGA1 121 forthe board control, and therefore the terminal platform board iscooperated with the second layer.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, theFPGA1 121 for controlling the board is separately formed, the ARMprocessor 122 for operating an application program is formed, the highperformance FPGA 160 for the modem functions is formed, the memory unit150 for the high speed interface and modem functions is formed, a totalfunction of the board is separately performed, and the CardBus 114 isused for the interface with the monitoring device. Accordingly, highspeed and quality data transmission of over 100 Mbps for the fourthgeneration wireless system may be performed, the terminal functionshaving a low data rate are easily realized as the software in themonitoring device, and therefore the time needed for manufacturing anddevelopment may be shortened.

In addition, the DPRAM is formed for the modem and high speed interfacefunctions. A multipurpose system platform may be provided by using4-path digital IF and RF, in which the multi-band multi-carrier systemusing the diplexer and the single-band multi-carrier system using theswitch may be used.

The board may be stably operated since the power source module isseparated from the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board andthe power source is stably supplied by forming the rectification circuitin the respective FPGAs.

Since the GPS module is separately formed in the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform apparatus, the terminal platform forquickly performing the terminal functions without using the synchronousblock and the base station platform for developing the base stationsystem may be used by using the GPS module.

Real-time monitoring and debugging operations may be performed throughthe RS-232 and the Ethernet interface, a real-time board controloperation may be performed by the real-time debugging and programdownloading operations of the FPGA by using the JTAG connector, andvarious modems may be developed with a short development time sincereal-time data input/output is performed.

While this invention has been described in connection with what ispresently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to beunderstood that the invention is not limited to the disclosedembodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover variousmodifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit andscope of the appended claims.

1. A multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board comprising: aninterface unit for performing an interface function with an externalmonitoring device; a codec field-programmable gate array (FPGA) unit forcoding and decoding (CODEC) functions; a modem FPGA unit for modulatingand demodulating (MODEM) functions; a dual port random access memory(DPRAM) unit for performing a high speed interface function between acontroller and the codec FPGA unit for CODEC; a memory unit forperforming a high speed interface function between the codec FPGA unitand the modem FPGA unit; a digital intermediate frequency (IF) unit forfiltering a digital signal inputted from the modem FPGA, up-convertingthe frequency of the signal, converting the signal into an analoguesignal, and transmitting the analogue signal to an external radiofrequency (RF) unit through multi-paths, the digital IF unit forconverting the analogue signal inputted from the RF unit into thedigital signal, filtering the digital signal, and down-converting thefrequency of the data signal; a clock/power source regenerator forsupplying a system clock signal received from the RF unit and supplyinga power source received from an external GPS/power source supply; andthe controller for controlling the interface unit, the codec FPGA unit,the modem FPGA unit, the DPRAM unit, and the memory unit so as toprocess a multi-band and multi-carrier signal.
 2. The multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board of claim 1, wherein the interfaceunit comprises: a recommended standard-232 (RS-232) connector coupled tothe monitoring device in an RS-232 manner and performing control commandtransmission and data transmission with the monitoring device; anEthernet connector coupled to the monitoring device in an Ethernetmanner and performing the control command transmission and the datatransmission with the monitoring device; a joint test action group(JTAG) connector for controlling the controller to be connected to themonitoring device so as to perform real-time debugging and programdownloading; and a CardBus connector for performing a connectionfunction for data transmission to the monitoring device.
 3. Themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim 1, wherein thecontroller comprises: a first FPGA for connecting the interface unit tothe DPRAM unit and controlling the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board; and an ARM processor for performing application andcontrolling the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board so thatthe multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board may independentlyperform a terminal function.
 4. The multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board of claim 1, wherein the codec FPGA unit comprises asecond FPGA for performing a coding function in a downlink path and athird FPGA for performing a decoding function in an uplink path.
 5. Themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim 1, wherein themodem FPGA unit comprises: a fourth FPGA for performing a modulationfunction in the uplink path; a fifth FPGA for performing a demodulationfunction in the downlink path; and a sixth FPGA for performing amulti-input/multi-output (MIMO) demodulation function in the downlinkpath.
 6. The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim4, wherein the DPRAM unit comprises: a first DPRAM for performing a highspeed interface function so as to transmit up-transmission channelinformation to the second FPGA in the downlink path; and a second DPRAMfor performing the high speed interface function so as to transmit thetransmission channel information received from the second FPGA in theuplink.
 7. The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim4, wherein the memory unit comprises: a third DPRAM for performing thehigh speed interface function between the second FPGA and the fourthFPGA; and a fourth DPRAM for performing the high speed interfacefunction between the third FPGA and the fifth FPGA.
 8. The multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board of claim 7, wherein the memoryunit comprises: a first synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM)for storing transmitted data, and performing a memory function forverification of the uplink multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformboard; and a second SDRAM for storing received data, and performing amemory function for verification of the downlink multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board.
 9. The multi-band multi-carrierterminal platform board of claim 5, wherein the digital IF unitcomprises: a plurality of digital/analogue (A/D) converters forconverting a analogue signal received from the RF unit into a digitalsignal in the downlink path; a digital up converter & digital downconverter (DUC & DDC) for receiving the digital signal of a bandwidthsatisfying a modem standard requirement from the fourth FPGA, digitallyfiltering the digital signal, digitally up-converting the digitalsignal, combining an inphase/quadrature (I/Q) signal to the digitalsignal in the uplink path, the DUC & DDC for digitally filtering thedigital signal of the bandwidth satisfying the modem standardrequirement (at this time, the digital signal is sampled by the D/Aconverter), digitally down-converting the digital signal, separating thel/Q signal from the digital signal, and transmitting the signal to thefifth FPGA; and a plurality of D/A converters for converting the digitalsignal outputted from the DUC & DDC into the analogue signal andtransmitting the analogue signal to the RF unit in the uplink path. 10.The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim 1, whereinthe clock/power source regenerator comprises: a clock regenerator forreceiving a system clock signal from the RF unit and supplying thesystem clock signal to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformboard; and a power source regenerator for receiving a power source fromthe GPS/power source supply and supplying the power source to themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board.
 11. The multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board of claim 10, wherein arectification circuit for stably supplying the power source generated bythe power source regenerator is formed in the respective FPGAs.
 12. Themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board of claim 4, wherein thesecond FPGA and the third FPGA are cooperated with each other in orderto perform encoding and decoding debugging operations on thetransmission channel, and the fourth FPGA and the fifth FPGA arecooperated with each other in order to perform debugging operations onthe modem modulation and modem demodulation.
 13. The multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform board of claim 1, wherein thecontroller, the codec FPGA unit, the DPRAM unit, and the memory unit areformed as software so as to perform a non-real-time data process.
 14. Amulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform apparatus for processing amulti-band and multi-carrier signal, comprising: a monitoring device forperforming call process, modem control, monitoring, and debuggingfunctions, and performing an interface function with a physical layer; amulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board connected with themonitoring device, including a DPRAM and a memory for performing highspeed interface and modem functions, and processing the multi-band andmulti-carrier signals by using a multi-path digital IF unit; an RF unitfor transmitting an RF band signal to the multi-band multi-carrierterminal platform board through the multi-path after receiving the RFband signal through an antenna, and externally transmitting a signalthrough the antenna after converting the signal received from themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform board through the multi-pathinto the RF band signal; and a GPS/power source supply for supplying apower source to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board,receiving a node-B frame number by using a GPS module, and controllingthe multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board to be operated as abase station system.
 15. The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platformapparatus of claim 14, wherein the multi-band multi-carrier terminalplatform board comprises: an interface unit coupled to the monitoringdevice, and performing an interface function with the monitoring device;an codec FPGA unit for performing coding and decoding functions; anmodem FPGA unit for performing modulation and demodulation functions; aDPRAM for performing a high speed interface function between acontroller and the codec FPGA unit; a memory unit for performing a highspeed interface function between the codec FPGA unit and the modem FPGA;a digital IF unit for filtering a digital signal inputted from the modemFPGA, up-converting the frequency of the signal, converting the signalinto an analogue signal, and transmitting the analogue signal to the RFunit through multi-paths, the digital IF unit for converting theanalogue signal inputted from the RF unit into a digital signal,filtering the digital signal, and down-converting the frequency of thedigital signal; a clock/power source regenerator for supplying a systemclock signal provided by the RF unit and a power source provided by theGPS/power source supply; and the controller for controlling theinterface unit, the codec FPGA unit, the modem FPGA unit, the DPRAMunit, and the memory unit so as to process multi-band and multi-carriersignals.
 16. The multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform apparatus ofclaim 14, wherein the monitoring device comprises: an interface boardcoupled to the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board, andperforming an interface function with the multi-band multi-carrierterminal platform board; and an application unit including a signalprocessor for processing a baseband modulation/demodulation signal andmonitoring transmitted/received data, and a graphic user interface unitconnected to an external computer and performing data download/uploadwith the multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board.
 17. Themulti-band multi-carrier terminal platform apparatus of claim 14,wherein the RF unit includes a diplexer and a switch, the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform apparatus operates as a multi-bandmulti-carrier system by using the diplexer, and the multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform apparatus operates as a single-bandmulti-carrier system by using the switch.
 18. The multi-bandmulti-carrier terminal platform apparatus of claim 14, wherein thecontroller, the codec FPGA unit, the DPRAM unit, and the memory unit areformed as software so as to perform a non-real-time data process, andthe RF unit performs automatic gain control, automatic frequencycontrol, and transmission power control functions.